Even before the Democratic convention ended, the two Ohio cities were sending strong signals about their intent. And the level of ambition is high: Local officials believe the state, because of its quadrennial battleground status, should get both 2016 conventions.

Then there’s Las Vegas, which appears to have mixed feelings about the idea.

In a story today speculating about whether Sin City would want to host a convention, Nevada Republican National Committeewoman Heidi Smith tells the Las Vegas Sun's Karoun Demirjian that she doubts the city’s libertine ways would be dealbreaker.

“Does Las Vegas have a bad reputation? It was built on that bad reputation. I don’t think they would take it into serious consideration,” said Smith, a Republican from Reno. “You’d have to maybe not run the buses with the girls playing in the windows. You would have to clean up the Strip with the guys handing out porno stuff ... but all the big conventions go to Las Vegas, and they manage to keep coming year after year.